Section: United Arab Emirates
QU announces internal research grants awards
Qatar University (QU) has announced that it is continuing to support its research community with a total of 74 newly awarded projects for the new cycle. An online event was held on Wednesday to announce the Cycle 4 Internal Grant Awards in the presence of Prof Mariam al-Maadeed, vice-president for Research and Graduate Studies at QU. QU said it...
Ukraine to ban flights by Russian, Syrian airlines that serve Russia’s annexed Crimea
Ukraine will ban flights over its territory by 13 Russian regional air carriers and Syrian Cham Wings Airlines for three years, the government said on Wednesday, citing flights by them into and out of Crimea, which was :Coronavirus: Ukraine asks EU for more help getting COVID-19 vaccinesUkrainian police investigate audio recordings discussing...
US Senate Republicans unite behind failed efforts to halt Trump impeachment trial
Forty-five :Impeachment trial of former US President Trump to begin Feb. 8: SchumerSupporters’ words may haunt Trump at impeachment trialTrump impeachment article formally delivered to US Senate …read more Source:: Al...
Russia’s Putin tells US President Biden he supports ‘normalization’ of relations
:Russia’s President Putin ready for dialogue if US willing: KremlinRussia welcomes Biden’s proposal to extend nuclear armsKremlin dismisses calls to free Russian opposition leader Navalny …read more Source:: Al...
Jailed Kremlin foe Navalny being used by West to destabilize Russia, says Putin ally
: Explainer: Who is arrested Putin critic Alexei Navalny?EU ministers debate response to Navalny crackdownPolice detain 3,454 people at rallies across Russia in support of Navalny …read more Source:: Al...
House Democrats Trump deliver impeachment charge to Senate
The US House of Representatives delivered to the Senate on Monday a charge that former President Donald Trump incited insurrection in a speech to supporters before the deadly attack on the Capitol, setting in motion his second impeachment trial. Nine House Democrats who will serve as prosecutors in Trump’s trial, accompanied by the clerk of...
EU ministers debate response to Navalny crackdown
EU foreign ministers met on Monday to debate their response to Russia’s arrest of : Kremlin says planned pro-Navalny nationwide protests illegal, work of ‘provocateurs’The diplomats from the 27 nations are meeting in Brussels for a busy day of talks ranging from Europe’s relations with new US President Joe Biden to efforts to...
President Russia’s President Putin ready for dialogue if US willing: Kremlin
Russia is ready to set up a dialogue with the new Biden administration in which differences are expected to be aired, a Kremlin spokesman said on Sunday, adding that President Vladimir Putin would respond in kind to US willingness to talk.Relations between Moscow and Washington have been at their lowest since the end of the Cold War, with the two...
Supporters’ words may haunt Trump at impeachment trial
The words of Donald Trump supporters who are accused of participating in the : Opinion: US Capitol riots – what happened to America?Woman arrested in US Capitol attack: ‘I listen to my president’FBI says US Capitol rioter allegedly hoped to sell Pelosi laptop to Russia …read more Source:: Al...
Nursing home fire kills at least 15 in Ukraine
At least 15 people were killed and 11 injured in a fire in a nursing home in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian state emergency service said on Thursday.: UK pledges $55 million in aid to SudanThe fire broke out in the afternoon on the second floor of the two-story building. There were 33 people inside, the service said.The...
